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Thursday, May 6, 2004 Ensign Front Page Volume
7, No. 237
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Downtown Tisdale upgrade preparations- Thursday
May 6, 2004
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : This
morning survey work was well underway with a bit of mainstreet blocked off and paint
markings appearing on the pavement as the town gets its refurbishment programme for
the downtown area underway.
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 Experimental
Box- Thursday
May 6, 2004
by : John Smith
This is a hacker story as the author goes about creating a computer to try things
out. With spam and worms ravaging computers today we need very badly to explore these
weapons of mass computer destruction in an effort to protect our equipment. What
will be done with this computer you wouldn't want to do with a machine you depend
upon for everyday work.
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0900 Thursday - Scattered altocumulus castellanus
1/8th 8,000, visibility 15, -1º, wind 8 knots 330º, altimeter 30.13 WeatherLog
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Today In Ensign
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Timothy W. Shire - Downtown upgrade
John Smith - Building
a cheap box
Albert Eckart - Tulips
Timothy W. Shire - Air Cadets cleanup
R. W. Shire - Another
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Helen Carson - Purple Finch |
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Today in Ensign years past
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Tim's Tip of the Day
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 Though many of us can't get the morning, or the day, for that matter,
going without a cup of coffee, it seems that this little vice is one of the most
insignificant problems around. Caffiene in coffee is addictive, but actually improves
alertness and may have other beneficial affects. Only a few people such as those
with heart problems need to watch out for the stuff, but like all things, everything
is best in moderation. |
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Kevin's find of the day
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 Oregon prisoners get flat-screen
TVs (pdf) This story that appeared on CNN reports on an innovative
programme to reward prisoners for good behaviour with small 7in. TVs for use in their
cells. Though it seems like a luxury it really turns out to be an outstanding idea
at providing and means of rehabilitating offenders. |
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Ensign Notes
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| The illness I had on Tuesday night kept me down all of Wednesday so I was unable
to post yesterday. |
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.Happenings In Tisdale:
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Thursday, May 6
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Town of Tisdale Open House to answer questions on this year's paving programme.
7:00 - 9:00 Hanover room at the RECPlex Coast Guard safe boating course |
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Friay, May 7
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| 8:00 - 5:00 Lutheran Church rummage sale |
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Saturday, May 8
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9:00 - 12:00 Lutheran Church rummage sale
10:00 - 1:00 Crooked River hall Mother's Day Brunch and Tea, $5.00
2:00 Tisdale Health Care Auxillary Tea and Bake Sale |
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Sunday, May 9
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2:00 John Barron Auditorium in the RECPlex Tisdale Dance Centre "One step
ahead a dance Extravaganza"
2:00 - 4:00 Kipabiskau Park Kip store Mother's Day Tea |
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Tisdale
Calendar
of Events
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 Tulips- Thursday
May 6, 2004
by : Albert Eckart
Swift Current :
Spring is flourishing in the south western portion of Saskatchewan and has brought
out some great looking flowers to begin the season.
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 Air
Cadets cleanup- Thursday
May 6, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : As
a fund raiser the Tisdale Air Cadets were out Sunday doing a ditch cleanup north
of town.
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 Another
look at the lake- Thursday
May 6, 2004
by : R. W. Shire
Regina : The
lake is full now in Regina and the citizens of the city once again get to stroll
by its shores and this year they expect not to be able to smell it rotting.
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 Purple
Finch- Thursday
May 6, 2004
by : Helen Carson
Crooked River
: These are really outstanding images of a neat little bird that lives in this part
of Saskatchewan.
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 Breaking
ground for new 18 unit Condo- Tuesday
May 4, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Today
the surface was removed from the new condominium site beside the Gold Age Centre
as surveyors stake the site and Chupa Excavation removes the topsoil.
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 Robin
waits for May to show up in Tisdale- Monday
May 3, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Though
Robins have been comfortably living in much of Saskatchewan for up to a month they
have stayed away from Tisdale until Sunday morning when one dropped by our house
and I was able to take his picture a few doors down. This story includes a QuickTime
rendition of a song by the "world's greatest entertainer."
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 Al
Jolson- Monday
May 3, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Michael
Jackson, Elvis Prestley, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby all are just pale imitations
of the very first superstar Al Jolson. When records, radio, movies and television
were invented he was there front and centre and he was well aware of his position
in history as he turned to the camera in the first motion picture with sound and
ad-libed "You aint heard nothin' yet."
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 The
Greenwater Report for May 3, 2004- Monday
May 3, 2004
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Trips to Prince Albert, Christopher Lake, Melfort and Greenwater
Lake is starting to break up despite the rather unpleasant weather. Gerald gives
us a look at some astonishing signs of the growing desert near Rosetown.
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 House
Number one- Friday
.April 30, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Yesterday
the service and basement were dug and today the forms for the footing were being
put in place.
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 House
number two gets its start- Friday
April 30, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Only
two blocks from downtown, this is the last older house in the neighbourhood and it
is gone now ready for a new replacement to begin construction.
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 Parkland
Photography Club April 2004- Friday
April 30, 2004
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : This month's meeting dealt with various contests and projects the
club involves themselves in and of course this month's competition to produce a "freak
of nature."
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 Democracy is neither scientific
polling nor privatisation, and we don’t need to compare apples with apples- Friday
April 30, 2004
by : Mario deSantis
Nipawin : The
role of the citizen seems to be increasingly confusing as we get sucked into discussions
that seem to rely upon pseudo-scientific polling while at the same time matters of
serious and importance to us all are fluffed over as high salaried officials cut
vital programmes or the fundamental right to medical care is undermined by political
and power struggle conditions in the country.
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 Its
Sale Time- Thursday
April 29, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Today
began the spring rummage sale at St. Matthew's Anglican Church as it begins the weekend
of garage and rummage sales. There are several sales planned for this weekend so
make sure you drop by the best one of the year at St. Matthew's that continues all
of today, tomorrow and wraps up Saturday morning.
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 Count Me Out! Boycott the Canadian Census Test!- Thursday
April 29, 2004
by : Mel Hurtig
Edmonton : As
if having Disney own the rights to the RCMP wasn't enough Ottawa has farmed out the
2006 Census to Lockheed Martin. don't you think you should be concerned about this?
Lockheed Martin's motto is "We never forget who we're working for"
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 Cold
and sunny afternoon- Thursday
April 29, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Capturing
the sky this afternoon with tower cumulus in the area and an ice cold wind with a
QuickTime VR. This page includes a 2.6MB image that would take some time to download
on a dial up connection.
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 April
Shower, snow- Wednesday
April 28, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Thanks
we needed that, last night we had a gentile shower (rain shower) that dribbled water
on the town and fields around us but during the night it turned to snow so that this
morning we all awoke to a white world once more.
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Bottom Of The Page Picture
of the Day
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Here is a Winnipeg sunset captured by Andrew Shire Monday night.
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